MIT: On Course to Create a Fusion Power Plant
How an MIT engineering course became an incubator for fusion design innovations. “There is no lone genius who solves all the problems.” Dennis Whyte, director…
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DOE Pushes for Aggressive U.S. Investment in Fusion Energy
An influential Department of Energy (DOE) advisory committee has recommended that the nation move aggressively toward the deployment of fusion energy, including investments in technology…
Nuclear Fusion: Building a Star on Earth Is Hard – We Need Better Materials
Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and all other stars. During fusion, the nuclei of two atoms are brought close enough together…
Faster Fusion Reactor Calculations Thanks to AI
Fusion reactor technologies are well-positioned to contribute to our future power needs in a safe and sustainable manner. Numerical models can provide researchers with information…
Asdex Upgrade: Paving the Way for a Fusion Power Plant
On March 21, 1991, the Asdex Upgrade experimental facility at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching generated the first plasma. For 30…
Bottling the World’s Coldest Plasma to Unlock the Secrets of Fusion Power
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion power. Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the world’s coldest plasma in a…
New Machine Learning Theory Raises Questions About the Very Nature of Science
A novel computer algorithm, or set of rules, that accurately predicts the orbits of planets in the solar system could be adapted to better predict…
Future Zero-Emissions Power Plants: Scientists Collaborate on Development of Commercial Fusion Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is collaborating with private industry on cutting-edge fusion research aimed at achieving commercial fusion…
Korean Artificial Sun – KSTAR Fusion Reactor – Sets New World Record
KSTAR sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million °C. Aims to continuously operate high-temperature plasma over the 100-million-degree for 300 seconds…
Realistic Simulation of Plasma Edge Instabilities in Tokamak Fusion Reactors
Computer simulation of ELM crashes at the lower plasma edge of ASDEX Upgrade fusion device. The video shows the evolution of the plasma pressure over…
Revolutionary Zero-Emissions Power Source: Validating the Physics Behind the New MIT-Designed Fusion Experiment
Seven studies describe progress thus far and challenges ahead for a revolutionary zero-emissions power source. Two and a half years ago, MIT entered into a…
How to Armor Future Fusion Reactors to Protect Against One of the Harshest Environments Ever Produced on Earth
The inside of future nuclear fusion energy reactors will be among the harshest environments ever produced on Earth. What’s strong enough to protect the inside…
Fusion Power Breakthrough: New Method for Eliminating Damaging Heat Bursts in Toroidal Tokamaks
Picture an airplane that can only climb to one or two altitudes after taking off. That limitation would be similar to the plight facing scientists…
MIT’s Lauryn Kortman: Juggling Fusion Magnets and LED Batons
Rising MIT sophomore finds satisfaction designing for the laboratory and the playing field. When Lauryn Kortman enrolled in Founder’s Journey, MIT’s entrepreneur-based first-year student seminar,…
While Birds Chirp, Plasma Shouldn’t: New Plasma Physics Insight Advances the Development of Fusion Energy
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have furthered understanding of a barrier that can prevent doughnut-shaped fusion facilities…
Abstract Mathematical Noodling Leads to New Insights Into an Old Fusion Problem
A challenge to creating fusion energy on Earth is trapping the charged gas known as plasma that fuels fusion reactions within a strong magnetic field…
Central Solenoid in ITER Fusion Reactor Has the Magnetic Power to Lift an Aircraft Carrier
Manufactured by the United States, the Central Solenoid is the most powerful of ITER’s magnets. It is sometimes called the “beating heart” of ITER because…
Fusion Energy Era: ITER Assembly Begins – World’s Largest Science Project to Replicate the Fusion Power of the Sun
Fusion: Future source of carbon-free, abundant, safe and economic energy; Leaders of EU, France, China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia & US make announcement together. French…